We tie dyed our arts festival t-shirts last year (500 K-5 students!). I had
the t-shirts pre-rubber banded and soaking in the soda ash before they
arrived. We made the large swirl- when you band it, it looks like a color
wheel, so we talked about that before dying and I posted the diagram above
each sink for reference. Make sure you put their names on the tags in
permanent marker before banding them and make sure the tag is out so you can
read it. I covered the counters with garbage bags & old towels to soak up the
extra dye & called back 6 students at a time (I have three double sinks). I
sent each t-shirt home in a zip-lock baggie with instructions for rinsing
since I didn't want to wash them all myself. They placed the t-shirt in the
baggie & then rinsed it off & the gloves before removing them. I had no
complaints from the parents. One student did get dye on his sweatshirt, but I
offered to tie dye that & the mother was satisfied. We used the Sax kit as
well- turned out very nice. Good luck & have fun!
Denise Pannell
Defiance, OH
>===== Original Message From lynne trinkner <artinmind@hotmail.com> =====
>I am attempting tye dye for the first time with my middle school classes.
>We are using a kit from the Sax Arts and Crafts catalogue. I am following
>instructions with the kit. What kinds of things have other educators done
>for class management during this lesson. I am tye-dyeing with around 27 8th
>graders at a time. Good suggestions have been - garbage bag smocks, garbage
>bags taped to tables and bringing in bags to store shirts in. Anything
>else?
>Lynn
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